Vell Friend Looking for CEO for Early Stage Speech Technology

Tuesday, 10 January 2012 13:36

Vell Friend Looking for CEO for Early Stage Speech Technology

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Note: This is not a Vell posting. Carol is a friend of a friend and her company is very early stage. We have decided to help her by listing this here and tweeting about it. She is an outstanding human being, a mother of three, an African American woman, and a genius. It is an honor to help her out. Please reach out to her directly.

Carol Epsy-Wilson a professor at the University of Maryland and has been working since her PhD at MIT on speech technology.

She has developed a technology and product that drastically improves quality of speech in mobile communications. The product works and has been demonstrated on a PC. They are working to reduce this to smaller footprints. They have had early traction with Mobile Handset Manufacturers and she needs a partner on the business side to help her grow it.

They have had some initial funding from grants and now looking to get more commercial funding to further our efforts.

She is seeking a CEO with the following key characteristics:

Growth experience 0 to $5m with responsibility for all areas of the business
Strong experience negotiating business development deals with Handset Manufacturers (engineering design-in OEM Deals)
Experience raising financing for early stage companies

Her profile and bio are at http://www.ece.umd.edu/meet/faculty/espy-wilson.php3.

Feel free to reach out to her via email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with a bio or forward this to anyone you think could fit the spec above.

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Dora Vell

Dora Vell is the Managing Partner of Vell Executive Search, a boutique executive search firm in Boston focused on recruiting technology executives and board members. Vell has successfully completed numerous board member and C-level executive searches, including CEOs, COOs, CIOs, and Vice Presidents - at both public and private companies.

Prior to founding the firm in 2005, Vell was a Partner at Heidrick & Struggles' Technology practice for seven years. Before her career in executive search, she worked at IBM for 11 years, managing software engineering organizations of 100 people and software sales organizations with revenues of $150 million. She has also served as an executive assistant to the CEO of IBM Canada for one year.

Vell holds seven worldwide software patents. She has published several Business of Leadership reports on governance and leadership and has been quoted in numerous articles including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business Week, Fortune, Agenda Week, MSNBC, Mass High Tech, the OPUS for the World Economic Forum, Boston Business Journal, The Globe & Mail, CIO Magazine, and IEEE. She also has been a featured speaker on leadership at numerous conferences and at Columbia University's MBA program.

Vell is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the Boston CEO Roundtable. She has served on the boards of Framingham State, Entrepreneur's Organization, Goodwill, Mary Centre for developmentally handicapped adults, garage.ca, and RBC Capital Partners.

She has received an MBA from the University of Toronto, a Master in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, and a Bachelor in Computer Science from Carleton. She has also completed the MIT Entrepreneurial Master’s program.

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